Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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